Work and family--allies or enemies? : what happens when business professionals confront life choices / Stewart D. Friedman, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Stewart D., author.

Greenhaus, Jeffrey H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work and family--United States.

Work and family.

Industries--Social aspects--United States.

Industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We've come a long way since the classic book The Organization Man first introduced the ""ideal"" 2-person career--a full-time male breadwinner and a stay-at-home wife. What typified the '50's good life is in stark contrast to contemporary reality: 63% of all married women with children under six years old are in the workforce and 40% of all workers are part of a dual-earner couple. Work and Family--Allies or Enemies? offers a fresh new lens for viewing the real struggles that business professionals face in their daily battle to find ways of ""getting a life"" and ""having it all."" Based on a

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Changing Dynamics of Work and Family; Six Major Themes; How Work and Family Affect Each Other; The Great Divide Between Men and Women; The Changing Face of Careers; 2. Choosing Work or Family... or Both?; Life Role Priorities; Shaping Life Role Priorities; How Gender and Family Structure Affect Our Involvement in Career and Family; Inequities in Our ""Available"" Choices; Four Conclusions About Choice and Involvement; 3. How Family Affects Career Success; Two Questions; What Is Career Success?; What Leads to Career Success?; Family: Bonus or Penalty?

What Conclusions Can We Draw?4. Having a Life; Where Our Career and Life Values Lead; How Time Matters; Looking Beyond Time; How Gender Matters; Balance and Boundaries; 5. Children: Unseen Stakeholders at Work; A Model for Understanding Work's Effects on Children; What Affects Parenting and Child Outcomes?; Summing Up; 6. Support from Our Partner; When Do Partners Receive Support?; Are There Benefits to Partner Support?; Four Conclusions About Partner Support; 7. Support from Our Employer; What Do We Mean by Family-Friendliness?; Why Are Some Employers Family-Friendly?

Benefits of Employer Family-Friendliness Employer Support + Partner Support; Summing Up; 8. What Have We Learned?; A Model of Work-Family Relationships; Resources and Their Impact; The Effects of Involvement; The Dynamics of Emotional Gratification; What Causes Conflict Between Work and Family?; Recurrent Cycles of Influence; In Praise of the Career + Family Focus; Summing Up; 9. What Can Be Done?; Benefits; Three Principles for Creating Allies of Work and Family; An Action Agenda; Summing Up; Appendix One: Design and Methodology of Our Study; Appendix Two: Personal Life Beyond the Family

Additional Tables Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028324-6

1-280-45370-2

1-60256-648-8

1-4237-4045-9

0-19-802725-7

OCLC:

191038499